Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Domestic Science Club to Held Meeting Saturday at 2:30. [ARTICLE]

Domestic Science Club to Held Meeting Saturday at 2:30.

The Domestic Science Club will hold a meeting Saturday afternoon, June 3, in the east court room, to which ail members and prospective members will be welcome. The following program has been prepared. “Remedies in Emergency" by Mrs. E. N. Loy. “Fruit In Diet” by Mrs. B. D. Comer. “Good Ventilation” by Mrs. Henr7 Wood. A discussion of the various •uic» will also he held. This club Is formed for home Improvement and housewives are urgently requested to at tend the meeting.

William Nowels returned Monday evening from Elk Falls, Kans., where he had gone some ten days before owing to the sickness of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Boyce. He found her in a very serious condition and it is not probable that she will ever be any better. Mrs. Boyce was raised in Jasper county and was 74 years of age on March 2nd.

The tobacco trust has been dissilved by the supreme court and its officers and stockholders given a chance to conform to the law. The company has been forbidden the privilege of interstate commerce and if it has not disintegrated its combined parts according to law within eight months a receiver for the trust will be appointed and its business wound upi|n a jiffy. *

Attorney Frank Davis is now managing the Brook opera house and will play attractions sent there by the J. H. S. Ellis booking agency, being guaranteed one attraction a week beginning Aug. 15th and lasting through the season. It is understood here that Mr. Gordon, head of the Jordan stock company, will this year have several companies and that Manager Ellis is to do the booking.

The autos are going back to Chicago today and probably since yesterday afternoon from 150 to 200 cars have passed here going north. About every sort of car has passed through here, mostly large, heavy and expensive cars. Not many of them have had troubles with breaks and local garage men have not had much repair work. The gasoline business has been good as also has business with the hotels and restaurants.

Various reports concerning the oats and wheat prospects are heard. In some localities the wheat was badly damaged by the fly in the fall and also suffered during the winter and from the dry spell; in other places it seems to look good. The rain of the past few days, though light in some' parts of the county, have helped the oats and wheat also. Corn is looking fine but weeds are growing rapidly and a little dry weather now will give fanners an opportunity to clean it up.

Recent letters from “Uncle” Joe Parkison and wife, who are still at north side hospital in Chicago, are very encouraging. He has been resting well for the past week and thinks he will be greatly improved by the treatment received. Mrs. Parkison has been taking treatment for the broken hip, which had been fractured some twelve years and will wear a support for it that she thinks will be of great benefit. They expect to return home in a week or ten days.

1 The hqme of Edward P. Lane, trustee of Newton township, was the scene of a pleasant dinner gathering Sunday, May 28th. The guests were Glga and Otto Schreeg, Elizabeth and Arnold Luers, Agnes and Harry Thoma 3. Charlotte and Edward Kanne, Clara Brusnahan, Harry Arnold, Grace-and Alice Worland, Rose, Amelia, Elizabeth, Lucy and Stanley Due, Victor Brusnahan, Mrs. Gilmore and Ethel Gilmore and Mrs. Kathryn Stephens. All report having had a good time.. Joe Jackson dqn’t think very much of Ben Miller’s New Mexico investment and In a letter to The Republican be advises other people in this section of Indiana against an investment there. Joe says that he got quite well acquainted with that country about two years ago. while breaking on the Sante Fe railroad. His run took him through Wagon Mound every day. Crops do well there the fore part of the spring, he says, but then the drouth comes along and they quit growing. He says that two years ago corn and wheat did well until It was about a foot high but It went no further. Joe does not think the land there is worth $1 per acre and says he wouldn’t give an 80 near Mt. Ayr

for ten times that much near Wagon Mound. Joe remarks that they have just had a refreshing rain at Longmont, Colo., the first- good rain for two months. He is now working for the Adams Express Co. All the Rensselaer people are doing fine.